Two million people ride the London tube system everyday. Tube Heartbeat is an interactive website that allows visitors to visualize daily movement along the tube system. Although designed in part to allow Londoners a way to chart their daily routes, Tube Heartbeat will be a welcome find for anyone interested in urban geography or planning. After selecting Play, site visitors will see certain stations and route lines swell and shrink in size, representing the daily ebb and flow of tube traffic. At any moment while viewing this interactive, users can pause and click on any station to get a detailed graph of the number of tube entrances, exits, and interchanges during each hour of the day. Visitors can also zoom in on stations of interest or check out the See the Change feature to learn which tube stations have seen an increase or decrease in traffic over time.
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